Word: sobering
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...captain closed the breakfast with a final order: "After 1 o'clock, or about 25 minutes thereafter, I don't give a damn what you do, but I want you to stay sober until then...
...fact that TV children's programs are so generally good is regarded by most parents as a happy byproduct. What matters is the revolution caused by TV in pre-bedtime habits. Instead of racing noisily through the house, kids now sit and stare and listen in sober silence. It may or may not be good for the children-but it is certainly a welcome change for mothers & fathers...
...wandered into view. Izumiyama, his eyes lighting on Miss Matsuo, straightened, smiled, politely offered to shake hands. "But instead of then freeing my hand," Miss Matsuo exclaimed, "he held it tight and pulled me." Miss Matsuo was saved by a bell summoning her and other Diet members, drunk or sober, to the night session, which convened at 8:47 p.m.* The Finance Minister, however, did not respond. He stretched out on a sofa in the corridor, and lay there, face up, eyes closed...
...house: "The Finance Minister has tried to make insulting advances to me . . . I regret that as a woman representative I must say such things from this rostrum . . ." Mrs. Yamashita's opposition colleagues roared, "Shame on the government," voted to discipline Izumiyama. By 2 a.m., Izumiyama was sober enough to shamble before a caucus of his party comrades and apologize. At dawn he resigned from the cabinet...
...belong to the stable of Bill Josko, a veteran Santa Claus with 12 years of experience, who has virtually cornered the market for Santas among the larger department stores of Boston and other Eastern cities. Josko got the idea of organizing a string of well-trained, sober Santas, after brooding for years over the fact that they were mostly recruited by harried store managers from the ranks of down-and-out bums...